The Wellcome Trust regards the lawful and correct treatment of personal information
as very important and to this end is fully committed to the principles of data protection,
as set out in the Data Protection Act.

What information we collect about you

We process personal data in connection with our charitable mission to foster and
promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health. We do this through
a range of activities, including grant funding, capacity building in history of
medicine and biomedical ethics, by measuring the societal and historical impacts
of biomedical research and by means of our public venue facilities.

How we use this information

Information that you supply in connection with the provision of a service or a grant
application and any funding arising from it will be treated in confidence and in
accordance with the principles of the Data Protection Act. Full details are provided
on the grant application forms.

You may be asked for personal information if you want to take advantage of specific
services we offer such as the online project grant application form, publication
subscription forms or library enquiry forms. In each case we will only use the personal
information you provide to deliver the services you have told us you wish to take
part in or receive information that you have requested from us.

Surveys

From time to time we conduct web surveys among current and previous grantholders
to evaluate the impact of our policies and funding. At any stage of the survey or
subsequently, you can ask that part or all of the record of the survey is destroyed
or deleted. The method for doing this is explained on the survey form.

The survey results will be used solely to evaluate Trust policy and research activities;
no information contained in the results will be attributed to the person who submitted
it without their explicit consent being obtained in advance. The survey results
may be anonymised and, for information/research purposes, may also be made available
to other organisations, some of which are our funding partners. We will tell you
who these organisations are as part of the survey process.

All data collected by the Trust for the purpose of surveys will be held and processed
by the Trust in a secure environment. All data will be anonymised and stored for
a maximum of two years and then destroyed, unless the data is required for career-tracking
purposes in which case it will not be anonymised and will be held for a longer period
of time.

Do we use 'cookies'?

When you log into this site your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie.
Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves
do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Cookies allow our server
to remember you are the same person as you move through a survey.

The Trust also uses cookies to gather non-personal statistical information about
visitors to our sites, such as the number of visits to pages, the amount of time
spent viewing a page, the path taken by visitors to a particular page and other
general information. The Trust uses this information to improve our websites.

You have the opportunity to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you
when a cookie is issued, or choose not to receive cookies at any time. The last
of these options may prevent you from accessing all functions of this site. Find
out more about cookies.

How do we protect personal information?

We use appropriate organisational and technical measures to ensure that your data
is secure and protected from loss, misuse and unauthorised access or alteration.
From time to time we introduce changes or improvements to our systems. Any test
data that may have been used in this connection is managed in a secure and confidential
manner.

Do we share your information with anyone else?

The Trust does not pass on information including email addresses to others unless
we have stated that we will do so as part of our terms and conditions.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us at any time not to contact you, or to change your preferred
methods of contact for marketing purposes.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which
we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.